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[quote name="barrios35"]
The secret is to let your IPOD shut down by itself (Auto shut off) before plugging it to the pioneer CD-IB100. YOu will then get the charging signal, then press menyu and voila browse through your IPOD or through your Pioneer stereo.
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This was working great for me - until I upgraded my iPod Video (5G) to the 1.2 software. Now, the charging icon never fills the screen (it only ever shows "Pioneer") and now I can't navigate on the iPod anymore.

Anyone else with 1.2 software seeing this issue, or is it just me? Are there workarounds (besides removing cables?)
-Craig

Wow - thanks for the hint on the illumination wire on the shifter - I thought I'd be stuck with an "always bright" screen in my 2003 H2.

BTW - I'm using a Post-July 06 unit with the grounded bypass flawlessly in a 2003 H2.

-Craig

[quote name="BigFloppy"]OK... need to get larger drive into the cobalt and reformat it.. I'm gonna grab me a 120gb drive this afternoon and go for it

Will advise (but will probably be tomorrow before I've got any news

Andy[/quote]

Also - many utilities for hacking a TiVo would work great for this purpose - do a search for copying drives and expanding the images. dd copies bit for bit, so you can't change partition sizes (it's a file copy utility, and UNIX can treat block devices like hard drives as files). TiVo hacking utilities, however, have been designed exactly for the purpose we're looking for - resizing partitions, copying data over and preserving system files, etc.

and PLEASE be careful with dd. If you set "of" to be one of the /dev block devices and it's the wrong one (like your main hard drive), it'll write right over everything without warning.

-Craig

[quote name="BigFloppy"]I've got a RaQ3 running Sun Cobalt OS sat here, gonna need instructions on how to use dd... (can only telnet into the b*tch though... it's a headless box)[/quote]

Ok wow - super quick dd tutorial.

The command is "dd"... It takes two parameters that we care about: "if" - which is Input File, and "of" - which it output file.

Devices on UNIX/linux-like systems are the in the /dev directory, and are named as follows: /dev/hdX#, where the X and # are letters (for which device in the chain it is) and numbers (for the partition numbers). (I'm not 100% positive what SunOS calls it, though)

For example on Linux, if you insert the HD into your machine (unlocked, of course), there should be devices named *something like* /dev/hdb0, /dev/hdb1, etc for each partition.

To duplicate these partitions individually, use the following commands:
[code]dd if=/dev/hdb0 of=parition0file.img
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=parition1file.img
dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=parition2file.img[/code]
... and so on, for each parition that is available.

where the value for "if" is whatever your drive shows up as. (Quick hint - if you print the whole /dev/ directory before you connect the drive, and then again after it's connected, you'll know exactly what the OS calls it in the /dev directory.)

Do this above code for each parition, so you'll have as many files as there are partitions. (If you leave off the partition number, you should be able to image the entire drive into one file. This, of course, will be a 30GB large file!)

To restore, swap the "if" and the "of."

-Craig

[quote name="ducatiboy"]ghost is a pain to get an image that will actually boot. I have acronis and casper and will try making images with those as well.[/quote]

I don't have experience with either of these, but if anyone is on a mac or a linux box, the available tools are a bit more... atomic. Using dd is probably the best thing out there for imaging an entire drive device to a file, and then you can play with the file itself from then on. Similar to how ghost works, but without any windows api's to go through, you're getting direct drive access to image and restore, bit for bit.

Ducati, do you have access to a linux box? Does Pulp or BigFloppy? What ever happened to the guy with the mac that seemed to be the first guy to get his drive read? I can walk people through a dd process. I'd do it with my drive, but I'm stuck with my laptop in Florida for the next week, with no way to mount the drive.

Also, you can download a linux liveCD booter that will give you access to these tools on a pc - you just pop the cd in, it boots into linux.

-Craig

BTW, my results verify ducatiboy's original one: I'm half-way to Florida from Atlanta, and I can change routes, play the DVD, etc, and it's not sending up warnings about the parking brake, and it's been working for a couple hundred miles.

One thing - I never used my July 06 model before installing it with this mod today, so I'm wondering: do non-bypassed units give the warning screen saying to click OK "when you're pulled over and the parking break is engaged?" I can just hit the OK button while driving with no problems. Is this the same screen the non-bypassed units see? If so, I assume on non-bypassed units that you can't hit OK?

[quote name="ducatiboy"]If other people had information it would have been nice for them to share with me.... since I had to do this on my own.[/quote]

This is true - although I shared rumors of the four open pins with ducatiboy yesterday morning, he's the one who bought a whole other unit for testing (at his own expense - he already had a unit that worked with his own bypass circuit!), detected the 5V and grounded that pin, took the picture and then drove it around for miles to make sure it worked, all for the community. This should definitely be commended. Thanks, ducatiboy.

-Craig

I'm putting this bypass onto my July 06 unit Thursday morning (today) and driving from Atlanta, GA to Tampa, FL.

I'll let everyone know if it works the whole way down, stopping for gas, etc.

[quote name="ducatiboy"]The March 06 unit comes up with a "hey the parking brake is installed incorrectly" message in about 20 feet of motion. The July 06 unit let me drive around for 15 miles. The VSS wire and internal sensors initialized and put me into 3d hybrid. All the while with Blazing Saddles on the dvd player. [/quote]

Just for clarification.... the July 06 unit let you drive "all the while" with Blazing Saddles, right? Not just for the 15 miles at which point it crapped out and stopped playing? (I assume you only tested it for 15 miles, not that you actually tested it for 20 miles, but the new bypass only worked for the first 15?)

Some thoughts I had while doing some research on Windows Automotive and Win CE.Net 4.0 (and 4.2.0):

First, the process of getting a platform up involves setting up the hardware, and creating a bootloader.

This lets you boot on your own hardware for debugging.

From purusing the exe's, it looks like the flash storage (where the boot loader partition resides) is accessed via USB.

Here's my idea. This thing is running CE.NET binaries for main applications. Someone needs to write a very simple CE.NET application (with all of the libraries linked in so it's a standalone app that doesn't rely on anything), and all that app does is copy from the USB/ parition all the files it finds into another folder on the hard drive.

Place that app in place of navi.exe or one of the others, and boot the system. Instead of running the z1 app, it'll run this custom app, copy everything off of the flash partition, at which point (once we figure out an easy way to keep the drives unlocked), we can pull it off and see what it is/replace it, etc.

Thoughts?
-Craig

Something I was thinking about - if the bypass stops every 15 minutes between shorting the parking break and disconnecting the VSS, can you simply do that every 15 minutes? (As in, can a circuit be made to do this?)
Or, does the playback pause immediately when you apply the parking break signal?